[Haskell-cafe] On Haskell IDEs

[Niklas Hambüchen]

On Tue 11 Mar 2014 15:40:54 GMT, JP Moresmau wrote:
> Ben, https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8244 is what you're
> referring to, I think.

Quoting from Simon Peyton-Jones:

> I would love to remove this dependency. Having it implies that GHC
depends on heavy-duty Cabal functionality, but of course it doesn't at
all. It means that we have to compile all 60+ modules of Cabal before
even starting on GHC. It seems wrong.

> So, more power to you! I have no opinions about the details -- just
wanting to be encouraging.

We just need to do it.